Are we born crazy?
The three functional psychoses are mood disorders, delusional disorders, and schizophrenia.
Depending on the level of functional behavior, people with these disorders are able to contribute to society, sometimes in a greater capacity when the rest of society treats them with the respect they do deserve.
And they deserve a lot, especially given the prejudice given a good psychotic.
For not all psychoses have a violent etiology (host of "symptoms" and behavior related to the psychosis).
Indeed, not all psychoses are bad, or disabling.
I suffer from borderline personality disorder, which is related to delayed development of the brain.
Under the age of one, I suffered anoxia for a brief period of time, so there is post-natal brain damage.
As well, I have had about 6 head trauma before I was 13.
So I have probably suffered post-concussive trauma and the etiology which arose consists of rebelliousness, insomnia, rages, and risky behavior.
One example of risky behavior: obsession about holding my breath until I passed out.
As a child, I remember learning to masturbate by age 6.
I remember several incidents when my mother used to punish me, but forgive her for it because my misbehaviour was real and did occur.
So naturally when I entered adulthood, the insomnia led to marked changes caused by neurological damage suffered as a child.
In adulthood, the diagnosis of borderline personality disorder was made circa 1990.
At first, my doctor decided to leave it untreated out of respect for my decision to muse non-pharmacological methods of controlling it using alternative health.
15 years later, I've "awakened" to discover that I am missing out on a family and a career due to borderline personality disorder.
Hence the delayed development issue.
As for schizophrenia, I know that that term describes etiology arising from a real chemical imbalance in the brain.
It has been controlled best by orthomolecular medicine, but seroquel is being used more and more to control schizophrenics.
For seroquel causes health problems in the doses needed to control violent forms of psychoses, and is an expensive sleeping aid in lower doses.
However, a combination of essential fatty acids and herbal anti-depressants are an alternative to the pharmacological medication.
EFAs help to stabilize mood, and take up to 3 weeks to work. I've experienced overnight relief, which lead to the healthy, happy mental state I now sustain.
Herbs such as valerian helps with sleep; St Johns wort helps with the depression; and gingko helps my brain get oxygenated.
As for kava, I'd recommend it as an alternative to recreational drinking. YMMV
IMHO we are all naturally crazy. Anyone can suffer a functional psychoses. Indeed, I would consider alcoholism as a functional psychoses with subclinical etiology.
So the ignorant can perpetuate their ignorance.
Madness is inherent to post-modern society in the 21st Century.
For the most sane of us all are on medication, be it pharmaceuticals or herbal supplements (health foods, herbs, vitamins and minerals).
Anybody would be crazy to subsist on only the average Canadian diet, since it has been implicated in the etiology of a host of functional psychoses due to subclinical malnutrition.
A host of homeless people may find relief in optimal nutrition, but won't find it at the meal lineup to the soup kitchens.
In today's society, the harmless psychotics are being manufactured and controlled by the neurotics in power.
It's time to realize this, and to get off Big Pharma's drive to cash in on the host of broken lives ruined by crappy food pushed by the food industry.
Indeed, health food is more nutritious and better for us than cheap food.
Sanity is found by supporting your local organic grocer.
Originally posted: March 3, 2005 at 2:45 PM
Edited and redacted: October 6, 2010 at 5:32 PM
Edited: November 24, 2012 at 1:48 PM
